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Fall 2024 Festivals

Our coverage from Venice, Toronto, and New York.
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Throughout the fall festival season, we'll be publishing a wide array of interviews, dispatches, and ballots from Venice, Toronto, New York, and elsewhere. Watch this space!

Interviews

The Plasticity of Blood: Albert Serra on Afternoons of Solitude” by Ela Bittencourt

The Catalan filmmaker’s San Sebastian prizewinner locates a paradoxical pageantry in bullfighting.

Sweetbitter Paradox: Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me” by Laura Staab

Cesare Pavese, Sappho, and dick doodles are entwined in “the mnemotechnic game” of the director’s latest.

Through the Fog: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Cloud” by Jordan Cronk

The auteur’s actioner finds an internet reseller beset by his customers.

Inside Man: Guy Maddin on Rumours” by Ryan Akler-Bishop

“A filmmaker gets to be young until they die of old age.”

All Is Full of Grace: Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour” by Jordan Cronk

“I think we can shoot in every country—we can shoot on the moon.”

Perfect Storms: Alexandra Simpson on No Sleep Till” by Leonardo Goi

The director discusses her feature debut, a dreamlike and elegiac portrait of small-town America.


From Venice

Rage Against the Dying of the Light” by Leonardo Goi

From Cloud to Baby Invasion, some of the festival’s early standouts felt true to our moment of anxious doomscrolling and paranoia.

Empathy Machines” by Leonardo Goi

Some of the festival’s best—Familiar Touch, The Room Next Door, April, The Brutalist—share a belief in cinema’s power to mesmerize.


From Toronto

Hunt or Be Hunted” by Chloe Lizotte

Saturday Night and The Apprentice fade into the forgettable “landmarks” on Festival Street, but Friendship dares to be weird.

For an Ad Hoc Cinema: TIFF Wavelengths 2024” by Michael Sicinski

The program remains a lodestar of auteurist cinema even as it is asked to make do with less.

The Cinema Is a House” by Daniel Kasman

A film builds a space in which the audience can live.


From New York

The Future of an Illusion” by Phil Coldiron

In the New York Film Festival’s Currents slate, what do novelty and innovation amount to if they don’t respond to the present moment?


Extras

Festival Ballots

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